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List all hard disks connected to a Ubuntu system

Submitted by admin, on February 1st, 2013

You often need to know what physical drives are attached to a system, how many drives are connected, or even what device names match up with which physical drive. Ubuntu comes with a handy tool called ‘lshw’ which is used to extract detailed information on the hardware in the PC.

To view a listing of all disks in the system:

$ sudo lshw -class disk -short

This will list all disks and storage devices. This includes DVD drives, USB card readers, etc.